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Sunday 31 January 2016

Ghost Adventures 12.1 "The Black Dahlia"

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Watching 12.1 The Black Dahlia murder ep of Ghost Adventures and the murder of Elizabeth Short, whom the newspapers dubbed, 'The Black Dahlia.'  There were some similarities I noticed between James Ellroy who wrote his book, The Black Dahlia in September 1987 but which was an entirely fictionalized account of the murder and not based on the actual facts, though the real murder did inspire him to write it.  George Hodel didn't die until 1991.  In his book Ellroy used the phrase, bad "penny and "bright penny" a lot and during the seance, psychic medium, Patti, says that Zak is being taunted by George and doesn't like him.  Had the impression he was taunting and sending out such messages.  George could've read the book and made such a reference.  Which maybe does sound far fetched, but what better way to throw red herrings and manipulate.

However Ellroy was fascinated with the murder of his own mother, Geneva, who was murdered in 1958 when he was ten.  The book he wrote about her was called, My Dark Places: An LA Crime Memoir.  Her killer was never found and she was strangled, her body was found in El Monte, California.  She was also known as 'Jean.'  He was fascinated by the killing of the 'Black Dahlia' and drew some similarities between the bodies both being dumped by roadsides.  Although the murder of his mother didn't draw any massive media attention.  Not saying there's anything to this but it does make for a fascinating connection.  As Jean came up during the seance.
Of course, Penny and Jean could be actual murder victims of George.  Who knows?

The EVP burst session, with Zak and Aaron on the floor, the male voice says, "someone talk to it."

The spirit box session:
male voice; the first word sounds like "George," after Aaron asks what's your name.
female voice: "don't be so..." sounds like she's saying "polite??"...then says, "and come in." Sounds like she has an accent.
There seems to be some 'pleasurable' moaning too, like an 'hmm."  Sorry I'm not sure how else to put it, in the part where Aaron asks if it just said, 'ghost.'

I said the same thing as Zak about the anomaly on the SLS camera, not that he was conducting a procedure, but rather  he was dissecting a body.

On the plus side great seeing Devin Lawrence make a surprise appearance!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have to say, this was a compelling episode. Jean may be a reference to Jean Spangler, an actress who vanished in 1949. Her presumed murder has been linked to Dr Hodel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Spangler